ISOMAN

CVE

CVE-2018-20781

In pam/gkr-pam-module.c in GNOME Keyring before 3.27.2, the user's password is kept in a session-child process spawned from the LightDM daemon. This can expose the credential in cleartext.

Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
Published
Modified
NVD detailAll CVEs

Linked Releases

DistributionReleaseStatusEvidence
Ubuntu16.04.7 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.6 i386 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.7 amd64 serverunknownsource
Ubuntu16.04.6 i386 serverunknownsource

References

  1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1772919
  2. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781486
  3. https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin
  4. https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin/tree/d95f1e08ce79783794f38433bbf7de5abd9792da
  5. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/issues/3
  6. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/tags/3.27.2
  7. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3894-1/
  8. https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
  9. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1772919
  10. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781486
  11. https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin
  12. https://github.com/huntergregal/mimipenguin/tree/d95f1e08ce79783794f38433bbf7de5abd9792da
  13. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/issues/3
  14. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-keyring/tags/3.27.2
  15. https://usn.ubuntu.com/3894-1/
  16. https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html